Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Science

Swinburne University of Technology - Hawthorn

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Overview

Swinburne’s Laws/Science double degree offers you a course focused on commercial law with emphasis on intellectual property law.

With an ATAR of 95+ you’ll receive a scholarship. Learn more

As the only double degree in Victoria with this specialisation, you'll learn about trade marks, patents, copyright, the prohibition of misleading or deceptive conduct and competition law. The course also provides an understanding of complex scientific information.

All Swinburne degrees include a guaranteed Work Integrated Learning opportunity. In this degree, you’ll complete professional experience placements at organisations in Australia or overseas. You'll also apply your learning in three professionally focused, science industry-linked projects.

Graduates will have the skills to work within the knowledge economy and information technology businesses, as patent attorneys, and in legal fields specialising in intellectual property, media, and science.

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Prerequisites

Year 12 prerequisites

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English other than EAL or at least 30 in English as an Additional Language (EAL); Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 20 in any Mathematics.

Non-Year 12 prerequisites

As for Year 12 or equivalent.

Majors

Administrative law, Applied mathematics, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Civil procedure and alternative dispute resolution, Commercial law, Company law, Contract law, Copyright, Criminal law and procedure, Environmental science, Equity and trusts, Evidence, Federal and state constitutional law, Introduction to Australian law and statutory interpretation, Land law, Legal practice and professional conduct, Legal technology and innovation, Legal writing, Patents and designs, Physics, Property law, Torts, Trade marks and related rights.

Potential Career Outcomes

Graduates will be equipped for careers in diverse settings such as law firms and barristers’ chambers, not-for-profits, government, small businesses and large multinational organisations. The specialisation in intellectual property law provides graduates with the skills for careers in information-dependant and knowledge-based industries such as advertising and design, banking and finance, entertainment and media, internet and information technology and science.

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2023.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offerL/NL/N
Median rank to receive an offerL/NL/N
Lowest rank to receive an offerL/NL/N

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the Swinburne University of Technology website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

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